By Ian Burkitt
The 1st variation of this booklet introduced tricky questions about selfhood including both awkward problems with strength and the 'social'. now not on the grounds that Mead or Goffman, probably, had this been tried in any such precious manner, and in such an guaranteed and obtainable textual content. This thoroughly transformed moment version keeps all of those virtues, and takes the unique research into new territory, no longer least with new chapters on gender and sophistication. if you are drawn to identification - really how identification 'works' - this booklet is key interpreting ' - Richard Jenkins, Professor of Sociology, Sheffield Univer. learn more... disguise; CONTENTS; PREFACE TO the second one variation AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 SOCIETY AND THE SELF; 2 discussion AND THE SOCIAL SELF; three ETHICS, SELF AND PERFORMATIVITY; four strength, wisdom AND THE SELF; five GENDER, SEXUALITY AND identification; 6 SOCIAL relatives, SOCIAL type AND THE SELF; 7 SELF IN modern SOCIETY; eight end; INDEX
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23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 1/10/2008 6:00 PM Page 28 Social Selves of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1–25. Michel Foucault (1988) ‘Technologies of the self’, in L. H. Martin, H. Gutman and P. H. Hutton (eds), Technologies of the Self: A Seminar With Michel Foucault. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 16–49. Mikhail Bakhtin (1981) The Dialogic Imagination. Tr. C. Emerson and M. Holquist. Austin: University of Texas Press. A. Momigliano (1985) ‘Marcel Mauss and the quest for the person in Greek biography and autobiography’, in M.
36 The desire to bind all of one’s life into a rational plan of work spread into all areas of life, and gradually this Protestant spirit became secularized as a general ethic. It spread into capitalist enterprises where rational methods of bookkeeping account for money spent and profits made, as well as into labour disciplines such as strict time keeping and regular working hours. More importantly, for Weber, it led to rationalization becoming the basic mode of social organization and government, with bureaucratic styles of administration that had developed earlier in countries like China, and in European institutions such as the monasteries and the military, being adopted as a general principle.
If this can be achieved, then humanistic beliefs and the ideology of individualism can form a collective consciousness that holds modern society together. ’ he would say that modern individuals are selves characterized by their place in the division of labour: by their skills, interests, specialisms, talents, functions, knowledge, jobs, professions and social status. qxd 20 1/10/2008 6:00 PM Page 20 Social Selves and it is the reason why we look to change jobs or social functions when we want to change our selves and our lives.